Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,602 pages of information and 246,144 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Steam Boiler Assurance Co

From Graces Guide

Boiler engineers and Insurers

1859 Company founded; Robert Bewick Longridge became chief engineer of the first company formed for insuring against boiler explosions (the Steam Boiler Insurance Company).

Initially focussed on boilers in Lancashire and Yorkshire; subsequently extended to the whole of the UK.

1865 Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Co incorporated to take over and extend the business of the company[1]. Company name altered from Steam Boiler Association Co to Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Co[2].


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Mar 20, 1865
  2. Advertisement from Manchester Examiner and Times [1]